https://padlet.com/mtombs/jrgvjscvot5u Check out these meaningful learning tools that you can easily integrate into your classroom. en-us 2016-09-22 14:45:09 UTC 2024-11-02 23:29:33 UTC hello@padlet.com mtombs https://padlet.com/mtombs/jrgvjscvot5u/wish/125753159 If you use videos in your classroom, EDpuzzle is a must have. Take already existing videos from Youtube, Khan Academy, Crash Course...etc., or upload your own, and make it perfect for your classroom and more engaging for your students. EDpuzzle allows you to crop the videos to only show certain clips, enables self-paced learning with interactive lessons that add your voice and questions along the video, and holds students accountable for watching your videos by allowing you to track the answers they give.  You can even link video lessons to your Google Classroom.]]> 2016-09-22 15:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mtombs/jrgvjscvot5u/wish/125753159 knewton57 https://padlet.com/mtombs/jrgvjscvot5u/wish/125755023 Padlet is a free, web-based, "virtual cork board" tool where users can express thoughts on topics of their choice.  Teachers and students can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device.  It's a great online collaboration platform and shared work space for education where students can post, respond, and discuss. Padlet can be used for book reviews, topic summaries, question boards, and opinion/forums. Uses for Padlet in your classroom are endless!  ]]> 2016-09-22 15:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mtombs/jrgvjscvot5u/wish/125755023 mtombs https://padlet.com/mtombs/jrgvjscvot5u/wish/125756116 Are you looking for a tool that will increase student engagement while serving as a means of formative assessment?  Well with Kahoot creating and sharing free, fun learning games for any subject and age has never been easier! You can either browse and use the over 9 million public Kahoots available, or you can create your own by choosing from a quiz, discussion, or survey, and adding in text, images, and even videos. Student sign in is as simple as typing in your assigned pin and pressing enter to join. You can access student responses immediately, and even save the results to Google Drive. Kahoot is accessible through phones, tablets, Chromebooks, or any device that has a web browser and an Internet connection. If you aren’t 1:1 don’t worry, there’s even a team mode that promotes collaboration, teamwork, and leadership skills.]]> 2016-09-22 15:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mtombs/jrgvjscvot5u/wish/125756116 knewton57 https://padlet.com/mtombs/jrgvjscvot5u/wish/125756180 Are you looking for ways to engage your students and offer them serious games on specific topics?  Interactive Sites for Education is a great resource for K-5 classrooms, PFAs, or anyone that needs extra support.  Teachers can easily search by subject and topic, such social studies, brainteasers, Spanish, music composition, and many more!  It is a great tool to introduce or review a topic, or even simply to get in some extra practice at home.]]> 2016-09-22 15:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mtombs/jrgvjscvot5u/wish/125756180 knewton57 https://padlet.com/mtombs/jrgvjscvot5u/wish/125756840 Would you like to boost reading and writing confidence in your classroom and offer support for Google Docs/web to all students?  Read&Write for Google Chrome™ offers a range of powerful support tools to help students gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:
• Hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
• See the meaning of words explained with text and picture dictionaries
• Hear text translated into other languages
• Get suggestions for the current or next word as you type
• Turn words into text as you speak
 • Highlight text in documents or the web and collect for use in other documents
• Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs
• Simplify and summarize text on web pages

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